What is HTTPS used for?

Historically, HTTPS connections were solely used for payment transactions on the internet, e-mail and for sensitive transactions in corporate information systems.

​While HTTPS has traditionally been used mainly for online stores etc, since 2018, HTTPS is used for the entirety of the website. HTTPS primarily protects page authenticity on all types of websites; keeps web browsing private and secure accounts.

In HTTPS, the communication protocol is encrypted by Transport Layer Security (TLS)

What Version of TLS are we using?

We are using the most up to date version of TSL; that is, TSL 1.2., the same version of TSL used by Amazon, eBay, Walgreens,Walmart and virtually every other retail site you can think of.

Who Has Issued Our Certificate?

Our certificate was granted by “Let’s Encrypt”The following is from Wikipedia…“Let's Encrypt is a certificate authority that provides free X.509 certificates for Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption via an automated process designed to eliminate the hitherto complex process of manual creation, validation, signing, installation, and renewal of certificates for secure websites. It launched on April 12, 2016.”

How Does It Work?

According to Wikipedia…

“Web browsers know how to trust HTTPS websites based on certificate authorities that come pre-installed in their software. Certificate authorities (such as Digicert, Comodo, GoDaddy, GlobalSign and Let's Encrypt) are in this way being trusted by web browser creators to provide valid certificates.”